MOsports Football Question of the Day, first answer gets....27 points

Where did Pete Adkins get his start coaching varsity High School football?

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Trump will be the biggest spending administration in US history. But not a whisper about it from the right since he can do no wrong. He's good at spending other people's money and running his companies into bankruptcy. Yet all the little ants are marching in line. He;s a freakin' magic bean salesman.

Just thinking out loud.

If the out break gets worse does it change the way these older obviously more vulnerable candidates run?

I have to think the three left in the race are thinking... I don't need to be shaking hands I catch this thing and I am done.

As I've told you before my GF is on a CDC task force here. We had our first Positive first in the County second in the state. I knew this a Day or so ago but Couldn't talk about it until they released it to the press. There is also another possible positive as well.

They had a Big meeting brought in a specialist and nothing as really changed on the dangers, risk etc. except they are a bit concerned that even though younger people are not getting it that the exposure could cause very minute scaring in the Lungs that could lead to issues in older life.

Other than that the fatality rate numbers have changed a bit..80yr up to 18%,70yr 10% and 60yr 6% all others the same 50yr 1.3% the rest of the age groups less than 1%.

So if you are old it's not a good thing, but everyone else it's not a Extinction level event. Still their main concern is panic and everyone flooding facilities etc. They literally shut off their C-Virus hotline...because of the panic traffic and stupidity. Some of the Stories are great though....

To sit down and watch some docs...

Who's with me?

One of the other Epi RN has now been tested or C19, not got results yet but if she is positive then My GF and the Other RN...whole staff will be on 2 weeks of Quarantine. They have not decided about people like me if I will have to be Q'd for 2 weeks. Tested and still Q'd, Tested and if negative not Q'd.

Gonna be interesting if she Pop's positive. I doubt she does for her sake. But one never knows.

Macon is open. Coach Claas is moving on and possibly retiring. Big loss for them.

Where do you find a list of Head Coaches for a individual school?

Like many schools in the area the local school is out at least until April. Anybody not closed?

My uncle’s best friend is on the school board, apparently they hired a 5 - wide spread offense guy!!

This is getting ridiculous.
Don't get me wrong, I won't turn down the cash, but I can't believe where things have gotten to in 2 weeks time.

Anyone seen one lately?
Interesting that when Bernie was leading I saw Memes talking about Socialism and the effect on its' people all over my Facebook newsfeed.
Does anyone have access to Venezuelan Facebook? Do they have pictures of our empty shelves and complain about capitalism?

All bells breaking loose.

WASHINGTON — Chief Justice John Roberts publicly chastised Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer on Wednesday over comments Schumer made outside the Supreme Court as the justices were hearing a case on abortion rights.

Schumer, D-N.Y., suggested that President Donald Trump's court appointees, Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh, "won't know what hit" them if they vote to uphold abortion restrictions. He spoke during a rally on the sidewalk in front of the court building.

Schumer's spokesman said his remarks about Gorsuch and Kavanaugh referred to the political price Republicans "will pay for putting them on the court."

It was a warning, the spokesman said, "that the justices will unleash major grassroots movement on the issue of reproductive rights against the decision."

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., plans to blast Schumer in a specch on the Senate floor on Thursday.

"Contrary to what the Democratic leader has tried to claim, he very clearly was not addressing Republican lawmakers or anybody else," McConnell will say, according to excerpts of his remarks released ahead of the speech. "He literally directed the statement to the justices, by name. And he said, quote, 'if you go forward with these awful decisions,' which could only apply to the court itself. The minority leader of the United States Senate threatened two associate justices of the U.S. Supreme Court. Period."

The court was hearing a challenge to a Louisiana law requiring doctors who perform abortions to have admitting privileges at nearby hospitals. It was the first major abortion case to reach the Supreme Court since the retirement of Anthony Kennedy, who voted to uphold a woman's right to choose. He was replaced by Kavanaugh, who is generally more conservative.

Schumer told the crowd that state legislatures are waging a war on women by passing tough abortion laws.

Schumer's office later issued a second statement on Wednesday in which the senator criticized Roberts.

"For Justice Roberts to follow the right wing's deliberate misinterpretation of what Sen. Schumer said, while remaining silent when President Trump attacked Justices Sotomayor and Ginsburg last week, shows Justice Roberts does not just call balls and strikes," said Schumer spokesman Justin Goodman, referring to Trump's criticism of the two liberal justices and his call for them not to participate in any rulings involving him.

Trump also slammed Schumer saying his comments were a "direct and dangerous" threat to Supreme Court justices.

The DNC is now trying to change the format of the next Dem debate. Biden doesn’t want it to be a head to head like most debates are. Instead, the DNC wants to have a town hall where the audience asks questions and limit the back and forth between Biden and Sanders.

Sure sounds like the DNC has the fix on Sanders. Everyone knows Biden would get eaten alive in a debate. His cognitive state is completely gone.

Trump looked like a wounded puppy last night during his speech. After cutting funding to the CDC's pandemic prevention program in 2018, and trying to downplay the coronavirus threat for weeks by assuring Americans that it is "just a bad cold" and "will go away in a couple months", now suddenly we have a national emergency. Another example of how he thinks he knows more than the experts.

I know we Doc Guys normally take a summer hiatus but I am sad to announce, that I will be taking one a bit sooner.

With all of the recent accusation about my wife, kids, and most importantly, my weight. I have decided to take a hiatus from MoSports. Perhaps I should spend a little more time with my family and less time reliving the ole glory days. We also have some important fundraisers coming up and the booster club is always looking for new stuff!

Im sure most of you will rejoice at this but fear not, I will return! Those of you who are due for a little "chat" wont be forgotten either! So dont cross me!!

In the mean time if you find yourself in Ampipe, first round is on me. Doc Guys, TOGETHER!!

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Any news out there after the interviews?

Stockton hires Luke Radar from Lockwood.

Recruiting is the lifeblood of a college football program. You’ve heard that before, and you’ll hear it again. But you hear it as often as you do for a reason. It’s true. And Mizzou’s new coach knows it.

He also knows you can’t just go out and offer the top 250 kids in the country based on Rivals’ big board and expect to have any success. That might work at a place like Georgia or Alabama. It has no chance of succeeding at a program like Missouri.

There must be a plan in place. A staff needs to know what areas it can attack in recruiting with sustainable success. Gary Pinkel primarily focused on Missouri and Texas until the Tigers moved to the SEC and he swapped out Texas for the southeast. It... didn’t exactly work, and Odom eventually got the Tigers back to focusing on the in-state talent and Texas.

Eli Drinkwitz has his plan in place, and his staff is ready to attack it.

“It all starts, first, with the state of Missouri,” Drinkwitz said in an interview with Brendan Wiese and TJ Moe on The Big 550 KTRS. “Since the year 2000, there have been 41 players drafted from Mizzou football. 26 of them came from our state. We have to recruit our state, and we have to be great. That doesn’t mean every player in the state can play at Mizzou and we can win the SEC East. We have to understand that they have to be good enough to help us win the SEC East. But once we identify that player, we have to go get them.”

“The number one thing for recruiting is having a unique on-campus experience. We’ve got to get those young men on campus. And then, after that, you have to be strategic about where you can get them. Columbia has three direct flights: Denver, Dallas and Chicago. We have to make sure Denver, Dallas and Chicago are a footprint for us in recruiting. And then, after that, we have to go where the talent and our connections are. There will be some Houston... Atlanta... Florida... North Carolina... But for the most part, when you talk about Mizzou football and our recruiting footprint, you’ll be talking about Denver, Dallas, Chicago, the state of Missouri and a 400-mile radius.”

It’s no surprise Drinkwitz is planning to make in-state talent a priority. He’s made as much abundantly clear since his introductory press conference. Dallas is a given for Mizzou, given the Tigers’ established footprint in the area and the abundance of talent in the area.

The more interesting part of Drinkwitz’s recruiting plan is the inclusion of Denver and Chicago.

Speaking from personal experience, there were as many students (maybe more?) from Chicago in my time at Mizzou as there were from Kansas City. Students from Denver weren’t as prevalent as Chicago or Dallas, but they were far from a rarity.

That hasn’t necessarily been the case for the football team.

Rivals has been tracking football recruiting since 2002. In that time, they have not recorded a single player from the state of Colorado that committed to Mizzou. Tracking college football scholarship offers is tricky, but the Rivals database only shows Missouri offering seven players from the state of Colorado between 2002-2019.

Drinkwitz and the Tigers have already offered nine players from Colorado in the 2020 & 2021 class.

It’s a similar story for Chicago. No true Chicago area recruit has committed to Missouri in the Rivals era. The two closest Mizzou commits to Chicago from the state of Illinois are Albert Okwuegbunam (Springfield) and Josh Augusta (Peoria).

Drinkwitz has officially revealed his recruiting plan. It’s no surprise to anyone that he’ll attack the state of Missouri and its surrounding areas to go along with Dallas. But I’m fascinated to see if Drinkwitz can do what previous Tiger coaches have not been able to in making Mizzou a destination for football recruits from Chicago and Denver the way the University has made Columbia a destination for prospective students from those same areas.

Apparently MoSports does have influence ha ha.

Just about a week after I posted here about them not recruiting him they jumped on the wagon.

Last week he was at University of Michigan. If they offer I couldn’t blame him. (Or any of the top 4-5 schools) But otherwise hoping he will pick Mizzou over all the others like Arkansas etc.

Why is it taking so long? And why hasn’t Bailey been hired?